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Chapter 2: Desperation

Do you honestly THINK I own Mario and remain penniless? No I do not own Mario and if I'd own any of the koopas I would not be writing, I'd be snuggling them cute koopalings so I don't own them either.

Everything was blurry at first Iggy woke up and tried to straighten out as much as his blindness allowed him. He felt something in his hand. It was his glasses so he put them on. Iggy noticed his surroundings for the first time. The first thing that called his attention was tat he was definitely not in Ice Land any more and as far as he was concerned he was in a large bedroom, fit for his dad.
"Good grief now I'm in Money land, I seriously need to get away from my brothers" He said to no one in particular.

"Very well it shall be our pleasure to assist you with that" A voice said from behind him.

When Iggy turned around nothing could have prepared him for what he saw. He had read about this creature. It was the ancient predator of the ancestors of the koopas. Though extinct it was still their natural killer and they say in children's tales this creature is the god of death. The creature was black and had the appearance of a scaled tiger. It smirked at its prey's reaction. Iggy contemplated fighting the creature but running seemed a better chance, not to mention wiser. Iggy looked over at the creature, then the door and then back at the creature. That's were I'm going sucker Iggy thought as he put one leg behind him for impulse. The creature must have guessed what he was about to do because it pounced on him. But, before the creature could land on Iggy, he retracted to his shell and used the impulse of his legs to spin over at full speed to the door.

Immediately the creature broke to a run after the spinning shell Iggy popped out of his shell when he was just in front of the door, he pulled on the handle …locked…he thought as he haplessly turned around. Te creature pounced on him and pinned him against the ground.

"Don't eat me!" Iggy whimpered the same way he did when Roy was about to beat him up; 'don't hit me!'

"If I eat you I'm in for it, yet, if I let you go it's worse. I'm not harming you, yet." The creature spat.

Iggy shoes to believe him, he didn't really have a choice anyways.

"So basically I'm your prisoner and you're my guard"

"No you're in hell I'm Hades, and soon enough you shall feel my wrath"

"And what do you mean with that?"

"When they are done with you I'll finely get the pleasure to taste your flesh but that doesn't mean I don't get to 'taste' you beforehand" the creature snickered.

I've got to get out of here, Iggy thought as he looked around. He spotted a long bottle used to decorate a corner. He went for it and grabbed it. Iggy smashed the bottle against the floor breaking it in half.

"Let me out of here before you die" Warned Iggy in a menacing voice. The creature was very amused at his outburst.

"Tell me child do you read?" The creature asked. Iggy sighed and shrugged.

"Yes Venferno, I read" Said Iggy.

"You do know who I am and you are still challenging me? It is sad to find such a young creature so willing to die."

"Then let me go" At this Iggy spotted a large window and made a run for it. Venferno was getting tired of the koopaling's constant tries to escape; he wanted to eat him already. Venferno gracefully leaped over to the koopaling who was banging on the glass with all his might screaming at the top of his lungs.

Bowser was waiting impatient and angry in his throne room. Ludwig stood looking at his brother with an undivided attention next to his father as Lemmy was telling them bought what happened.

"Ludwig go to Pipe Land and tell Roy and Morton to have their armies ready" said Bowser before turning to his guards "and will someone, PLEASE, find Wendy?"

"You shouldn't have told her you knew-" Lemmy began as he was stopped by his father's look.

"Don't start with that" Bowser spat. "What could I possibly do to her?"

"Oh gee I don't know" Lemmy said sarcastically. Bowser looked daggers at him.

"Vell King Dad I shall be informing the people of Sky land and Dessert Land if you excuse me" Ludwig exit the room before hearing a loud "LARRY!" from his brother's bedroom. It took him a while but he eventually reached the room in question to see a young koopa female tangle in vines from the root of a piranha plant. Ludwig understood the awkwardness of the scene immediately.

"Oh great Morton! Larry stop engaging in enjoyable activity with your piranha plants; Iggy has been kidnapped." Ludwig said. At that moment a pack of vines came from another part of the room untangling a road that moved as if it… well it WAS alive. Out of it came Larry; standing or rather sitting on the bud of the plant.

"What!" Se said startled before directing his attention to the piranha plant "Sweetheart put down the monster" Ludwig thought of how ironical it was to say this to a predator of this plant's nature, as the plant itself dropped the girl like a sack of potatoes.

"I'm going to inform our siblings of this situation vhile you can inform your troops and commence the process to deport them"

"English… subtitled… not my language" Larry reacted.

"In a more accurate vay you should mean 'English subtitles are currently required" Ludwig said while Larry tilted his head even more confused when a gunshot was heard from the throne room. Bowser stormed into Larry's room and grabbed Larry and Ludwig by the wrists.

"Go" he whispered to them before turning to face his attacker.

"C'mon Ludwig" Larry said as he pulled Ludwig out of his attention to the scene. They went out through a trap door Larry opened and locked behind him. They ended up in a small basement with a warp pipe as the jumped Ludwig felt like turning around just to check if what he saw was true and his father was indeed shot.

They arrived at Grass Land all of the sudden, inside the palace.

"Vut vuz that?" Ludwig asked dumb folded; Larry gave him the same confused look.

"I don't know but we're going to find out!" Larry said as he directed his attention to a small but of grass growing of the floor.